Research: The BERKOM multimedia-mail teleservice

Authors:
Eckhard Moeller;Sanjay Manandhar;Luc Neumann;Johannes Rückert;Gerd Schürmann;Susan Thomas;Frieder Wolf
Affiliations:
Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Forschungsinstitut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (GMD-FOKUS), Hardenbergplatz 2, D-10623 Berlin, Germany;Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Research and Development Division, 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803, USA;Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD), Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany;Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Forschungsinstitut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (GMD-FOKUS), Hardenbergplatz 2, D-10623 Berlin, Germany;Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Forschungsinstitut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (GMD-FOKUS), Hardenbergplatz 2, D-10623 Berlin, Germany;Digital Equipment GmbH, CEC Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany;Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN) Verein, Zentrale Projektleitung, Pariser Str. 44, D-10707 Berlin, Germany
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
1995

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Abstract

A multimedia-mail teleservice based on CCITT Recommendation X.400(88) is under development within the BERKOM project funded by the German PTT. The traditional text exchange is being enriched by supporting multimedia information in the form of text, images, video, audio as well as documents. The problems caused within the message transfer system by the expected large messages in case of, for example, video are solved by complementing the store-and-forward mechanism inherent to electronic mail by an additional exchange mechanism. This mechanism allows the resolution of references to message content. Such references may be put into a message in place of the content itself. OSI/X.400 and Internet/MIME interworking, asynchronous information server access via multimedia-mail as well as possible future developments are discussed.